What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
RAMAKRISHNA
The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
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The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
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When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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